It's a Fact
"Fact Book," Office of Institutional Research, 2008-2009 (pdf)
"It's a Fact," Facts about Iowa State, 2008-2009 (pdf).
Get to know us through the numbers:
- $3.9 million per year in research expenditures
- 44,000+ square feet of modern laboratory and office space including a 1994 building addition
- 60 alumni hold faculty positions in ChE or related fields nationally and internationally
- 18 Faculty working in both traditional and emerging areas of chemical engineering
- 5 NSF young investigator awards
- 4 new faculty in the last 3 years
- One of the first chemical engineering departments in the country (1913)
Research Strengths
Longstanding strengths in
- Biocatalyst and separation engineering
- Reaction engineering and catalysis
- Crystallization
- Transport phenomena and thermodynamics
Nationally recognized initiatives in
- Bioinformatics, biomaterials, and bioproducts
- Metabolic and tissue engineering
- Multiphase computational fluid dynamics
- Advanced polymeric materials
- Nanostructured materials
